18.2.1. Bug reports and general commentary

If you have a bug to report or a suggestion to make:

• An idea or suggestion of general technical interest should be mailed to the FreeBSD technical discussions mailing list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>. Likewise, people with an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a high volume of mail!) may subscribe to the hackers mailing list by sending mail to <majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG>. See mailing lists for more information about this and other mailing lists.
• An actual bug report should be filed by using the send-pr(1) program or its WEB based equivalent. This will prompt you for various fields to fill in. In the send-pr(1) case, simply go to the fields surrounded by <>'s and fill in your own information in place of what is suggested there. With the WEB based interface, you simply select the appropriate items from various option menus and fill in the various fields shown there.

  You should receive confirmation of your bug report along with a tracking number. Please keep this tracking number and refer to it in any subsequent correspondence so that people can find the details of your problem quickly. You may also send mail to bug-followup@freebsd.org with your PR# in the subject line to append further information to an existing bug report.

  If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to a week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason, unable to use the send-pr(1) command, then you may also file a bug report by sending mail to the FreeBSD problem reports mailing list <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>.